Call for emergency UN meet amid regime assault in Syria
The United States, Britain and France have called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the escalating violence in Syria's second city of Aleppo following a rising civilian death toll and impending humanitarian crisis, Aljazeera writes.
According to the source, the latest step comes as Syrian government forces, backed by Moscow, have heavily bombed rebel-held areas of Aleppo killing nearly 200 people since Wednesday.
The United Nations says that nearly two million civilians are left without water in the embattled northern city after government bombardments damaged a pumping station and rebels shut down another in retaliation.
Intense air strikes toppled buildings and killed at least 91 civilians in Aleppo on Saturday, two days after the Syrian army announced an offensive to retake the rebel-held east of the city.
Mainstream rebel groups said on Sunday that the escalating Russian-backed bombing of besieged Aleppo had rendered any peace process futile unless there was an immediate halt to the fighting and aid deliveries under UN auspices.